

The whole point of doing so is to get a general sense of the size and shape of your house. Rough or estimated dimensions are good enough. Start with a sketch or image of your floor plan. I’ll show you just enough to make a good looking 3d model of your house suitable for framing or for use with Home Assistant.

This won’t be a full tutorial of all the features available in Sweet Home 3D, and that’s because I’m not a SH3d expert. Sweethome3d is free and available for the major operating systems and there is also an online version. Here’s my simple explanation of how to use it to make nice looking 3d images for your smart home interface. The software that I’ve been using for my floorplans is called SweetHome3D. We’re dealing with a bunch of connected devices in our homes, so it makes sense that one very useful way to interact with those devices is by looking at a picture of the floorplan.
